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It’s time to have some rock at the Superbowl and there is no one bigger than Metallica. Plus it’s their hometown and they are already involved in local sports teams like the Baseball world champions Giants plus the San Jose Sharks.

Max was of course the lead singer and guitarist for Sepultura up until the late 90’s when he left and formed the band Soulfly. Max has done many other projects as well like Nailbomb, Killer Be Killed and the band Cavalera Conspiracy a band he formed with his brother Igor who had also played in the mighty Sepultura. In fact check out the video for their latest tune ‘Babylonian Pandemonium”

Then our Then & Now features a new super group from the minds of legendary drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge/Cactus/Ozzy) & singer Jeff Lynn Turner (Rainbow/Deep Purple/Yngwie Malmsteen) called Rated X.

This week’s Power Set features 3 of the best Metallica cover songs. After all Metallica is on e of the world’s best cover bands, their 1998 double disc album Garage Inc. proves that.

And this week’s heavy metal soundtrack recommendation comes from season 3 of the Walking Dead. A scene that has Merel cranking up some Ted Nugent and Motorhead to go have himself a good old fashioned zombie killing!

Believe it or not no member of Anthrax has joined us in the Hangar since we launched, well this weekend that changes as bassist Frank Bello steps up fresh off the Motorboat cruise with Motorhead. Anthrax have also just released their live concert film Chili on Hell. Frank has stories to tell and we have Anthrax music to crank up.

Speaking of amazing metal bass players it was 28 years ago that the world lost Metallica bassist Cliff Burton. Cliff is widely regarded as one of the greatest metal bassists to ever live. We will revisit Cliff ‘em All for this week’s In the Vault.

Also if you missed the news recently AC/DC founding member and rhythm guitarist plus songwriter Malcolm Young has dementia so bad that he is no longer playing with the band and has sat out recording their new album plus will not be joining them on tour. So we’ll dedicate a Power Set of some of the best Malcolm Young songs to the man and of course we wish him and his family the best.

Machine Head recently had a new song leaked entitled “Now We Die” but before it got out of hand the band decided to release upon the world themselves, and we’re happy they did. We will debut the tune as part of a Machine Head Then & Now that will also feature a classic from their debut Burn My Eyes.

(Now We Die artwork courtesy of Nuclear Blast Records)

Finally our soundtrack recommendation this week goes back to the video game world. It’s only fitting that when the makers of Splatterhouse, one of the original horror themed video games, remade the game in 2010 that it included a soundtrack featuring metal heavy weights like Lamb of God, Mastodon and the Cavalera brothers.

On September 27, 1986 Metallica’s tour bus hit a patch of black ice while on tour in Europe and in an instance the metal world lost one if it’s greatest heroes, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton. To remember him here is the full tribute documentary Cliff ‘em All.

Hangar 19 relives the glory days of classic metal and features music from the artists who built this explosive genre, including Megadeth, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Slayer and Marilyn Manson.

Hangar 19 stops down from the nostalgia just long enough to highlight new metal in a weekly “Then and Now” segment and to interview the metal greats that helped mold the speaker-shredding musical movement.